Sometimes the contagion is the thing, sometimes its expression: mirth and yawning are contagious, laughter and boredom are not.
Feb 132019
Nothing
You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Feb 062019
Peer review is a cargo cult.
Jan 252019
The lower the latitude, the greater the lassitude.
Jan 242019
An opinion not worth fearing isn’t worth having.
Jan 152019
Only when no one pays the slightest attention to what anyone else is saying will speech be truly free.
Dec 272018
Imbecility, like many infectious diseases, has asymptomatic carriers.
Dec 242018
What is privilege? A term — beloved by parents, nuns, schoolmarms, jailers — to describe what doesn’t belong to you, and can be revoked at any time without reason or warning.
Nov 262018
Inside every thin man is a fat man struggling to get out.
Nov 212018
To the befuddled I recommend a serene air of quiet dignity.
Nov 122018
Intolerance, n. Insufficient deference to received opinion.